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@cakra Solve problems when you actually have them. There’s no point “guessing” what the first thing you’ll need to scale is because you’ll most likely be wrong.
Start small. Scale when you actually need to.
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The downside of using Cheapest Digital Ocean
Hi, as per the subject, I need some perspective from experience on what the downside is of using the cheapest Digital Ocean droplet (US$ 4/month). Let's say everything will be migrated onto a droplet (MySQL, Cache, Storage). What will be the first threshold I will encounter if I have a daily active user base of 100-ish? Any advice or experience would be appreciated.
Level 102
Completely depends on what it's used for. Are all 100 users online at the same time and clicking around every second?
I have several sites running on the smallest hetzner server (more or less the same) and they never hit max. But they are doing very few queries at a time. I have one that's slightly bigger for a site where 100 users are active at the same time using chat and similar and it has no problems at all
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thanks for the suggestions @martinbean and @sinnbeck , took your advice and start from the smallest droplets. I got probably 3 or 4 times the server has disconnected itself and I have to power cycle to bring back up. I look at the logs/chart and I supposed it never reach hit max.
I am using Forge with Digital ocean to deployed at Singapore region , I am now using the $16/mo droplet for 50ish users
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